Whatsapp Chatbot

Table of Contents

1. Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • How To Run The Server
   • How To Send Messages
3. Roadmap
4. Contact
5. Acknowledgments

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Prerequisites

• Install NGROK. Ngrok exposes a local development environment to the internet. With Ngrok you can get messages from Twilio to your local server. See "Building a Basic Application using Twilio API and WhatsApp with Spring" to learn about how to setup Ngrok quickly.
• Create a Twilio Account.
• Get your account sid and auth token from your Twilio account.
• Change "account-sid" and "auth-token" fields with your credentials in the application.yaml file.

How To Run The Server

• Download the repo to your machine.
• Download required dependencies with Maven.
• Run the server from IntelliJ IDEA.

How To Send Messages

• Send "join your-sandbox-name" Whatsapp message to the phone number given you by Twilio. Watch Twilio Sandbox Video for more information.
• After joining the sandbox you can now send a location message to the phone number.

Roadmap

• Integrate Twilio to the project
• Get location message from Whatsapp users
• Use location message to get current weather forecast from "Weather Api"
• Create weather forecast message using Weather Api's response
• Send weather forecast message to the user
• Multi-language Support
  • Chinese
  • Spanish

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Contact

Oğuzhan Çevik - @oguzhancevik

Süreyya Şentürk - @SureyyaSenturk

Kadir Yüksel - @WastedHymn

Project Link: Whatsapp Chatbot

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Acknowledgments

Some useful links to learn about API's and frameworks.

• Building a Basic Application using Twilio API and WhatsApp with Spring
• Create a WhatsApp Chatbot with Twilio
• Twilio Docs
• Weather API Docs

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